The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-14
WITH THE "rAR HEELS"
Adventures OF q Massachusetts, Man In North
Carolina.

Carolina.
Raleigh Corr. Boston Transcript
talked with every one met on TIA.
cars and on horseback; asked aud an
swered all kinds OF questions; stopped
over night wherever darkness over
took meat hotel, boarding or log.
housewife mayor, parson or 'moon
sinners" and one and all treated mo
just as well Us though | was as good n
Democrat and "tar heel" Us Senator
Vance. As far as personal security
went, never felt more safe; though in
most cases in the backwoods there
was no lock on the door, and in
some instances we all occupied
one room, vet lost not so
much as shirt-stud, and slept
without fear OF robbery or violence.
Possibly this is accounted for in part
by the idct that burglary Is capital
offence in North Carolina. In one in
stance | was stranded in town on
cold winters night at IL O'Clock, with
no place for shelter, and had pros
pect OF sitting on the fence till the cars
started at $50 o'clock, as the depot
was locked. Some ladies going homo
from o churh fair kindly invited me
to sit by the fire in their parlor and
to close the outer door when left fog
the depot; they retiring and leavi.4
me, ~ stranger, to take care OF my
SELL We do not treat tramps thus
at the North. Not an unkind word
was spoken to me during my solorn
in North Carolina because OF my be
ing Yankee, and fell in with some.
pretty rough and primitive charac
ters while / was wandering about
among the moonshiners in the noun
tains. One night, up in the King
mountain ranges, three rough noun.
taineers rode in from their moonshins
still apparently tho worse for apple
Jacks.
To be sure, they made themselves
at home, and stayed we'll into, the
night, and smoked all my cigars, ply
ing me with questions, and were only
persuaded to depart for their mount.
ain home, when my host had assured
them that was going to settle among
them at once. Once, up near the Roam
mountain, when was snow and storm
bound at night, and compelled to sleep
in log store and take pot-luck with
the owners numerous but kind
hearted family, in an unguarded
moment made bold to ask n native
who lounged by the fire what the
weather would be on the morrow. He
grutily replied, Stranger, | amt a
prophet, or the son OF n prophet, and
l don't want you should ask me about
the weather" And he was right, for
it rained and showed for ten days af.
terward. Again | was snow.bound
aud housed in a western town during
the first snow storm, when
the mail rider did not get
over his route for four days,
and when the snow was three feet deep
and the rivers ran ice and snow. TAX
ing up the pamphlet issued by this
county and baited for the northern
settler with balmy air, isothermal
belts, freedom from snow, etc, and, in
fact, consumptives' paradise, / sent
out for the signers OF said document
and in they soon came, stamping the
snow from leggings and boots and
growing at the weather. We sat be.
fore roaring wood fire, and calling
their attention to the snow without
the window they referring me to the
deep snow on Boston common-I sug-
gested that confession was in order
10 do
phlet of theirs. They acknowledged
the corn, but said the snow was phe.
nomenal, and that, further, it was all
my fault, because, il had gone home
when ought to, ] would not
have seen the snow; in fact,
l had stayed too long. But
in the main, found from personal
examination that the statements
made at the settlers convention were
substantially correct, though now
and then some land agent made some
rather wild statements in praise OF his
section OF the state But after care
ful examination of the resources, de-
veloped and undeveloped, climate and
people OF this state, am as full oil
wonder at what | nave myself seen
as was ofincredulity at what Iheard
at the convention. In some respects
this state Is behind the age, as in the
lien law, by which you can mortgage
what yon have got; in the homestead
law, exempting LOO from levy
for debt; in an almost utter
lack of savings banks; in the
barbarous notion OF compelling the
farmer to fence his crop and all ow-
ing the cattle king to Craze his cattle
at larra. Az TO nolitics. this state is